Today actress Horikita Maki attended a special talk event for “Umareru.“, a drama in which she is currently playing the leading role.

The drama’s story about pregnancy at an advanced age raises various topics such as the preciousness of life and bonds of a family. Hayashida Aiko, played by Tanaka Misako, is a 51-year-old mother who gets pregnant again at the age of 51 and Horikita plays her eldest daughter.


First the young actress shared her thoughts about marriage and children. She said, “I always believed that it would be okay to get married and have children at any point in my life, but recently various things let me start to think that it might be better to start a family while I’m still young.”

Seeing how the story of the drama is influencing her own thoughts on the matter, what kind of family is she dreaming of? In the drama she plays the oldest of four siblings, two girls and two boys, and it seems like she is aiming for to start a family just as big. She commented, “It should be a really buzzy family.”

“Umareru.” airs every Friday at 10pm on TBS.


source: tokyohive